Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-09-01
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

WI LoRMovE d Co.'s wholesale grocery
house at Elnira, n. Y, closed its doors
Thursday. The liabilities are $4,000.
The First National Bank of Dansville,
at Rochester, n. Y. suspended Thursday.
1t had a capital of $4,000.
THE great phosphate industry of South
Carolina is in a demoralized condition.
An attempt is making to form a combi
nation of the various companies for the
purpose of bulling prices.
FOREIGN securities were at a standstill
on the London stOck-exchange last week.
English railway shares were in improved
demand. On the continental bourses
ruled firm, with an upward tendency.
GOVERNOR WASHINGTON BARTLETT, of
California, is lying at the point of 65ath
at Oakland. He was stricken with
paralysis Monday night, and no hope is
entertained of his recovery.
In excavating for a sewer at Walnut
Hill, Cincinnati, Tuesday, a petrifed Sec
ton of human vertebra, of dimensions
indicating it belonged to being nine feet
high, was found.
The remains of mastodon have been
discovered on a farm near Montpelier,
Indiana, where similar discoveries had
been previously made.
GENERAL JOHN G. BLACK, who was re-
ported quite sick at Weirs, n. H., has re-
covered. Thursday he made speech to
the New Hampshire veterans, who were
holding their eleventh annual encamp-
ment.
TBERE was new development in the
car company case at Saltwater, Mimi,
Thursday. The Minnesota Thrasher
COmpany's attorneys asked the court to
order the sale of the car company pro-
perty, and hearing IL the matter will
be had Tuesday, Sept. 6.
GOVERNOR ADAMS, of Colorado, was
notified Thursday that Major Leslie has
Colorow and his band corralled. The
indians refused to treat with the Major
or Sheriff Kendall, and the Governor was
asked to lend his assistance at powwow.
The steam er A. Booth, owned by the
fishmongers in Chicago, is again under
water. She went down last summer on
the north shore of Lake Superior and
had just been raised; while being towed
to Duluth she was struck by squat,
sinking in twenty fathoms of water. It
will be next to impossible to raise the
vessel.
The Minneapolis convention of Knights
of Labor will not be harmonious in its
Endorsement Of Master Workman Pow
DERBY. At New York, Monday, eleven del
egates opposed to his administration
were elected.
INFORMATION has reached st. Louis, Mo-,
that the President and Mrs. Cleveland
will reach that place Saturday evening,
October L. They will remain until Tues-
day midnight, when they will come to
the metropolis of the west.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY was elected chair
man at Springfield, ILL.,, Monday, of the
state officers acting as trustees of the Lin
coin homestead, TO take charge of the
old home of the martyred president.
They have received a deed of the prop
erty, have assumed control, and Gus
todian will be appointed in a few days.
GENERAL Crook, at Omaha, Neb., re-
ceived, Monday, dispatch from Major
Randdett, in command at Fort du Chesne,
in which he stated son of old Colorow
had visited the camp occupied by the
hostiles and found only dreary waste
of cooking utensils and discarded wares.
1t is thought the cowbows attacked the
Indians and that the latter were COMPEL
ed to flee. 1t is said several squaws are
among the missing.